Installing new oil boiler

rjj999

My house is not suitable for air source heating due to its age and building style. Have had an engineer out to check.
I live very rurally and gas will never reach me and I don't like the idea of calor.

So, at present my central heating is powered by woodburning stoves. I am getting old and this is becoming quite challenging to fill up. I would like to install oil driven heating where heating comes on at a touch of a switch but am scared of whether oil will be phased out in the near future. When I have spoken to engineers some tell me that new boilers are designed to be able to have their nozzles changed to vegetable oil in the future. But, you know, they are trying to sell me something.

Is it sensible to install new oil central heating. I would need a boiler where there has never been one in place before and all the tanks and piping etc installed too. It seems like a lot of money if oil is going to be phased out by 2030. (If it matters, I don't expect to leave my house unless forced out by ill-health.)

dunstonh

 I would like to install oil driven heating where heating comes on at a touch of a switch but am scared of whether oil will be phased out in the near future. 

Oil will be around for another 50 or so years.   By which time, synthetic oil and/or recycled oil will be available

When I have spoken to engineers some tell me that new boilers are designed to be able to have their nozzles changed to vegetable oil in the future. But, you know, they are trying to sell me something.

They are not wrong.

Is it sensible to install new oil central heating. I would need a boiler where there has never been one in place before and all the tanks and piping etc installed too. It seems like a lot of money if oil is going to be phased out by 2030. (If it matters, I don't expect to leave my house unless forced out by ill-health.)

Oil boilers tend to last longer than gas and there is no concern about supply being stopped.